. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Order Passeres, complete in two volumes . rt monotonous sing-song phrases; or, if it be a vigorous bird, brought up amongst other featheredcompanions, it shouts out the most deafening, though sometimes comical jumbleof notes imaginable. My experience of hand-reared birds as compared withthose caught wild is also unfavourable to the former in other respects, I havefound them vicioi\s and domineering in an aviary, dirty and wasteful in acage; they are always more wild than a cage-moulted trapped bird. Thelatter, after its first moult, becomes gentle, confidi
. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Order Passeres, complete in two volumes . rt monotonous sing-song phrases; or, if it be a vigorous bird, brought up amongst other featheredcompanions, it shouts out the most deafening, though sometimes comical jumbleof notes imaginable. My experience of hand-reared birds as compared withthose caught wild is also unfavourable to the former in other respects, I havefound them vicioi\s and domineering in an aviary, dirty and wasteful in acage; they are always more wild than a cage-moulted trapped bird. Thelatter, after its first moult, becomes gentle, confiding, and neither wastefulnor dirty; it has even been trusted in an aviary with small Finches, and Ihave never seen it molest them. As to the cruelty of caging up wild birds,it is more fanciful than real, a bird does not sing when it is unhappy,much may, however, be said as regards the cruelty of rearing birds from thenest; the parents anger and annoyance is the least part of it, the bunglingmethod of feeding the young, often upon the most unsuitable food, is itsworst o z — <UJ The Redwing. i i The best staple food for this, and all other insectivorous birds, is composedof stale household bread crumbled, mixed with half the quantity of preservedyolk of egg, preserved ants cocoons, and Century Food, the mixture beingmoistened by the addition of potatoes, boiled the day before, and passed througha masher when required for use ; on this mixture with the addition of a fewinsects, or worms, and a little fruit, I have kept Thrushes, and many other birds,in perfect health for 3ears; grocers currants, which are often recommended,should be avoided, they have a tendency to irritate the intestines and oftenproduce diarrhoea; thin slices of apple, over-ripe pears, sweet-water grapes, sweetoranges, or ripe strawberries and currants, when in season, are as good asanything. In an aviary Thrushes and many other so-called soft-billed birdswill swallow seed whole, and it seems to ag
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